Tag Archives: politics

The Limits of State

Posted on February 21, 2024 by julianstodd

As part of a body of work on ‘Whole of Society’, i’ve been considering the nature of our societal structures, and their evolution in the context of the Social Age. I’ve written about this before, in terms of ‘Society – … Continue reading →

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Our Spaces of Difference

Posted on April 6, 2023 by julianstodd

There is much discussion about the polarising nature of social media, the increasingly partisan nature of politics, and the seemingly endless spaces of our difference and dissent. And it is true that we live in noisy times, where often the … Continue reading →

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Government – Society – Organisation: Evolution

Posted on June 21, 2022 by julianstodd

This is very early stage #WorkingOutLoud – a piece, considering the taxonomy of social systems and evolving structures of society in the broadest context of the Social Age. We tend to understand society in terms of fixed structures and the … Continue reading →

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A Politics of Reconnection?

Posted on December 13, 2019 by julianstodd

Our democracies are always imperfect, split between structures that enable the application of power over others, and the structures that prevent that application being limitless. Some of those structures are fallible: the redrawing of constituent boundaries, the pork barrelling of … Continue reading →

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Guide to the Social Age 2019: Community

Posted on February 21, 2019 by julianstodd

This post is one of a series exploring aspects of the Social Age, written as i complete the sketch map for 2019. Community: I position the ‘Social Age’ as built upon the foundations of the Digital one. Technology connects us … Continue reading →

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8 Aspects of ‘The Storytelling Leader’

Posted on January 10, 2019 by julianstodd

A key aspect of Social Leadership is to recognise that our primary role is not to craft stories of power, pushing them through a network, but rather to act, with humility, to hear stories within a network, to find the … Continue reading →

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Citizen of Apple, State of Lego

Posted on May 3, 2018 by julianstodd

What if you are no longer a citizen of a State? What if ‘citizenship’ has devolved from a binary, to an analogue, status: no longer something you have, or lack, but rather something contextual, more fluid, and perhaps multi faceted. … Continue reading →

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Trump: Communication in the Social Age

Posted on January 23, 2017 by julianstodd

The early stages of the Trump presidency are seeing the battle lines drawn between formal media organisations and social power. It’s a complex conflict: partly a tension between different types of power, partly a battle between establishment and a newly … Continue reading →

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Restraint: Democracy

Posted on June 16, 2016 by julianstodd

I am struggling to write: it’s been a week where dissent has tipped over into violence, where discourse has been lost to hatred and fear. Democracy is not about consensus: it’s about restrained consent. About the gradual unearthing of what … Continue reading →

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Beyond Organisations

Posted on June 10, 2016 by julianstodd

This is a #WorkingOutLoud post on some early thoughts for a Journal article. The stratification of society that we see today is not necessarily permanent. The structures of education, commerce, finance and business are simply those which have proved most … Continue reading →

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